Providing women with access to no-cost contraception doesn't spur them to make riskier sexual choices, according to a large study published in the Obstetrics & Gynecology journal this week. The researchers who collected the data noted that their results

"they (Women) are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of government."

Notwithstanding the distinction between self-insurance and regular commercial insurance, the claims challenging the birth control benefit are specious--both constitutionally and as a matter of church doctrine.

Anti-choice extremists in Congress and in states all across the country haven't let up in their drive to limit access to - and ultimately outlaw - abortion. But you and the ACLU have been there to fight them every step of the way.

In the US, women age 17 and over have the legal right to get emergency contraception -- sometimes called Plan B or "the morning after pill -- over the counter and without a prescription at their pharmacy.
But not, it seems, if you're Native like me.

"I plan to become the guinea pig and test this products effect on myself and my sperm," he wrote recently. "I will take 1 pill daily and record how I feel everyday. After 30 days, I will see my doctor and have my sperm tested to see if it was effected->

For millions of women, access to basic health care is in danger right now. Extreme anti-choice forces are fighting to reverse the White House's decision that requires employers to include birth control coverage in their employee's insurance plans.